37

2008

S. Biswas & S. S. Mahapatra [62]

Modified particle swarm optimization

Ø Minimizing system unbalance

Proposed algorithm produces promising results in comparison to existing methods

comparison to existing methods for ten benchmark instances available in the FMS literature

38

2008

S. G. Ponnambalam & L. S. Kiat [63]

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)

Ø Minimizing system unbalance

Ø Maximizing throughput

Performance of PSO is satisfactory compared with heuristics reported in literature

tested by using 10 sample dataset and the results are compared with the heuristics reported in the literature

ü Artificial intelligence

39

2001

N. K. Vidyarthi & M. K. Tiwari [64]

Fuzzy-based Heuristic Approach

Ø Minimizing system unbalance

Ø Maximizing throughput

Substantial improvement in solution quality over some existing heuristic-based approaches

Tested on 10 problems adopted from literatures and computational results are compared with the previous findings

40

2004

R. R. Kumar, A. K. Singh, & M.K. Tiwari [65]

Fuzzy based algorithm

Ø Minimizing system unbalance

Ø Maximizing throughput

Extended neuro fuzzy petri net is constructed

Computational results are compared with standard data set adopted from literature

41

2008

A. Prakash, N. Khilwani, M. K. Tiwari, & Y. Cohen [66]

Modified immune algorithm

Ø Maximizing throughput

Ø Minimizing system unbalance

Good results as compared to best results reported in literature

compared to the best results reported in the literature